On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Saurabh jadia wrote:
> I have Redhat 6.1 loaded on one partition of my 4.3 gb harddisk. The
> other partition contains Win98 with Win - 32 FAT. I would like to format
> the FAT 32 partition from linux environment and want to reload Win98 on
> to it. Is it possible ? If yes then please let me know.
Yes it is possible, but no, you shouldn't do that. Linux can format a
partition as any of the partition types listed through fdisk. Why you
shouldn't do it:
Windows does not trust the partition table. It requires some amount of
zeroes written at the start of the disk. I am not sure exactly what this
count is, and you can't be sure that it will be correct, so just don't do
it.
Why don't you just format the partition from windows itself?
Philip
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